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—-+ NEW YORK OFFICE MAIN OFFICE VAW-CIO INTL EOUCATION DEFT 1324 MACCABEES SLOG. DETROIT 2, MICH. itth FLOOR 386 FOURTY AVE, NEW YORK 16, N.Y, eee FULLEC by CATION : To All Charter Members About: The Lator Book Club The First Book Selection The Labor Book Club Newa Recommended Books on 0 os Sh et rrr - THE LABOR BOOK CLUB SRIP DRIVE: The Labor Book Club ia the only book club organized by a union for labor. It ia the only non-profit book club in America which means that all the savings re- sulting from mass production and distribution of Labor Book Club selected tooks are handed back to the members in the form of books priced lower than those of any. other book club. Every charter member will want to help make the Labor Book Club the larg- est and most successful of all book clubs. Flease urge your friends and fellow work- ers to join at once. Use the subscription blanke attached to this memo. Ask your shop steward or the officers of your local for more subscription blanks. Help your local put over the Labor Book Club membership drive which every local has been urged to atart. s R BOOK CLUB SELECTIONS: The Board, of Judges which chooses Labor Book Club Selections is made uv of the four top officers of the UAW-CIO. R. J. Thomas. Georme F. Aaces, Richard Frankenstein, and Walter Reuther, and the UAW International Education Director William H. Levitt. Every selection is made by the unanimous decision of this Board. Chofces will made from outstanding classics and current best sellers in fiction and non-fiction as well as from previously unpublished manuscripts of particular interest to labor. All Labor Book Club selections will be cloth-bound, durable editions, similar to reg- ular trade editions. They will not have so-called dust jackets, the paper covers which are used on trade editions to carry advertising material and to prevent the damaging of book covers on store abelves. You will be interested to mow that dust Jackets for 20,000 trade editions consume the paper necessary to print 1,200 books. In this period. of paper shortage, the Labor Book Club paper quota can be etretched to allow more people to join the club by doing away with dust Jackets. OPINIONS ON THE IMPORTANCE OF THIS VENTURE: All over the country Lator Leaders and WS DAV AW ET WAU 2448S AO VIE VS SMa FS wh wwe weaw friends of Labor have come forward to congratulate the UAW-CIO on the formation of the Labor Book Club, to emphasize the importance which this Book Club may have to all working people. LABOR LEADERS SAY: R. J. THOMAS, "The newly organized Lator Book Club of the UAW-CIO, for the benefit PRESIDENT, “© of ourselves and our families, is now under way. This Book Club is UAW-CIO the first in the history of American labor. I'm personally strong for this project because the success of our Book Club is going to show once more that the UAW-CIO stande out internationally as a union that works for the educational self-improvementof its members as well as their economic betterment.” 100-34 fol -¥ . x